Winners for the 69th EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) were announced in London today potentially foreshadowing what results may occur at the upcoming Academy Awards. In highly contentious season, where three films (The Big Short, Spotlight, The Revenant) seem equally viable as Best Picture possibilities, BAFTA fell pretty hard to the sway of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s sweeping epic The Revenant, which took home five prizes including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor for the highly expected Oscar frontrunner Leonardo DiCaprio (BAFTA couldn’t resist Titanic reunion as Kate Winslet picked up a prize for her work in Steve Jobs).
While The Revenant scored the most, George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road had solid showing, garnering four technical prizes. Steven Spielberg’s Cold War drama Bridge of Spies (also nominated at the Oscars for Best Picture) and Todd Haynes‘ romantic drama Carol led the BAFTA nominations with nine apiece and both went home empty-handed with the exception of Mark Rylance’s supporting victory in Bridge. While BAFTA, in recent memory, has solid history in predicting the eventual Oscar winners, it’s worth noting that last year they selected Boyhood as their Best Film while the Academy chose Iñárritu’s Birdman.
Time to start updating predictions for your Oscar pool and take a look at the full list of BAFTA winners below:
- FILM: The Revenant
- DIRECTOR: Alejandro González Iñárritu, The Revenant
- ACTOR: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
- ACTRESS: Brie Larson, Room
- SUPPORTING ACTOR: Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
- SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
- ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Spotlight – written by Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy
- ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: The Big Short – written by Charles Randolph, Adam McKay
- BRITISH FILM: Brooklyn
- DEBUT FOR A BRITISH WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Naji Abu Nowar (writer/director), Rupert Lloyd (producer), Theeb
- ANIMATED FILM: Inside Out
- DOCUMENTARY: Amy
- FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: Wild Tales
- CINEMATOGRAPHY: The Revenant – Emmanuel Lubezki
- COSTUME DESIGN: Mad Max: Fury Road – Jenny Beaven
- FILM EDITING: Mad Max: Fury Road – Margaret Sixel
- MAKE-UP & HAIR: Mad Max: Fury Road – Lesley Vanderwalt, Damian Martin
- ORIGINAL MUSIC: The Hateful Eight – Ennio Morricone
- PRODUCTION DESIGN: Mad Max: Fury Road – Colin Gibson, Lisa Thompson
- SOUND: The Revenant
- VISUAL EFFECTS: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- BRITISH SHORT: Operator
- BRITISH ANIMATED SHORT: Edmond
- EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted on by the public): John Boyega
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